Blog posts tagged
"provisioning"

13 posts

Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

Case study Internet of Things

As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to date in the field increases. Domotz, who manufacture an all-in-one, network monitoring and management device for enterprise IoT networks, found themselves with this challenge that was further compounded by their rapid software...

Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing...

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

Canonical
1 December 2017

Introduction to MAAS: building the agile data centre

Webinar Cloud and server

As more and more applications move to the public cloud, many wonder if it still makes sense to maintain a data centre apart from regulated workloads. In this presentation Andres Rodriguez, MAAS engineering manager, will look into how devops and infrastructure managers can build an agile data centre with a developer...

Canonical
1 December 2017

Canonical
21 November 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 (final) Released!

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 (final) is now available! This new MAAS release introduces a set of exciting features and improvements to the overall user experience. It now becomes the focus of maintenance, as it fully replaces MAAS 2.2 In order to...

Canonical
21 November 2017

Canonical
5 October 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 beta 1 released

Article Canonical announcements

MAAS 2.3.0 (beta1)New Features & ImprovementsHardware TestingMAAS 2.3 beta overhauls and improves the visibility of hardware test results and information. This includes various changes across MAAS:Machine Listing pageSurface progress and failures of hardware tests, actively showing when a test is pending, running,...

Canonical
5 October 2017

Canonical
22 August 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released!

Article Cloud and server

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to annouce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA:Snap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or...

Canonical
22 August 2017

James Donner
3 April 2017

Cloud Chatter: March 2017

Article Cloud and server

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing security updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at least another year. Download our latest ‘Carrier Cloudification’ eBook, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers,...

James Donner
3 April 2017

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Videos Cloud and server

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

James Donner
3 March 2017

Cloud Chatter: February 2017

Article Cloud and server

Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World Congress. Download our latest whitepaper on containers, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers and MAAS. We’ve also included a fantastic host of...

James Donner
3 March 2017

Canonical
2 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation

Article Cloud and server

This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server industry is becoming more and more automated. Robots are helping to deploy servers and clouds that are moving away from large racks of blades and hardware managed

Canonical
2 March 2017

Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Webinar Cloud and server

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

White paper Cloud and server

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are...

Canonical
23 January 2017

Christian Reis
8 September 2016

MAAS 2.0: high availability API-driven bare metal provisioning

Article Cloud and server

This week, the result of over a year of work by our engineering team is concluded: the final release of MAAS 2.0 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and additionally from our stable release PPA. If you’ve never heard of MAAS before, here’s an introductory slide deck from a recent presentation at the OCP

Christian Reis
8 September 2016